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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Humans have a tolerance for human-style accidents, but not robotic-style accidents. I think it's more because there's someone to yell at - someone to blame. Think of it like a taxi driver with a passenger; people ride in thes
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I wonder if this method is cheaper and/or more effective than dropping from regular airplanes en-masse? Kinda like the surveillance antenna things the USA did during the Vietnam war?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> The very richest king in 1630 was dead poor compared to you. I guess it depends on how and what you compare things. All you say is arguably true. Yet I can guarantee that in one manner, those people were as wealthy or potentially wealt
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by cr0sh 8y ago
One thing that hasn't changed, though, in comparisons of wealth, is the size of one's house. While a high-ranking official or royalty in the middle ages couldn't travel anywhere in 24 hours, if you look at their house(s), man
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by cr0sh 8y ago
In theory, this is possible - in fact, I think Oliver Sacks (RIP) wrote about something very close to this in one of his books; probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I can, say, play "air on the g string" in my head right now with near perfect fidelity, or just imagine new music in real time as if I were simply hearing it. For me, I wish there were a way to easily get the music I imagine
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> but you don't know what, so you avoid breaking any laws to be on the safe side. If you don't know, then how can you know when you aren't breaking any laws? I mean - you could be doing everything "by the book" -
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Back then, you didn't have a choice. Most microcomputer BASICs did not have any other kind of "infinite" looping construct beyond a GOTO. FOR-NEXT was about the only other option. There wasn't a WHILE or a DO-UNTIL const
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by cr0sh 8y ago
That book was somewhat "old" when I first encountered it as a kid in the 1980s. Most of the code in it was first created for minicomputers in the 1970s, probably running some form of Dartmouth BASIC.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
You were either typing in mostly game code (with a simple BASIC HEX ML loader), or were using a machine with a limited form of BASIC that didn't allow for easy graphics manipulation (the C=64 and VIC-20 were famous in this regard). Whi
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> being amazed at some things people could do in BASIC My first software engineering job out of highschool used a version of BASIC; I was originally hired as an "operator" because I didn't have a degree, and they wouldn&#x
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> we knew hard drives existed, but they were so expensive that we didn't dare dream of them I was from a slightly later generation (I think); I got my first machine in 1984. I knew hard drives existed too - a 10 meg system would onl
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Heh - you may have ran into some of my old stuff from back then, up thru the late 1990s or so. BASIC still holds a place in my heart (if you haven't played with QB64, you owe it to yourself to look it up). For that old stuff, "Pet
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by cr0sh 8y ago
My first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with a cassette tape drive; compared to the PET, due to the "generation difference" (probably in the encoding method?) - plus Radio Shack - it's cassette storage was actually rea
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Between those, tic-tac-toe learning systems, the various 20-questions things... Later I played with various "expert system" stuff, then there was David L. Heiserman's "Machine Intelligence" and "Robot Intellige
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I was originally using a TRS-80 Color Computer, with a slightly different dialect of BASIC, so I was usually having to make modifications. Which also helped me learn programming. Same here! Those two books, along with a ton of magazine
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It's definitely an interesting read; I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with Graham - sometimes on the same thought or idea being presented. I'm not sure what that means for me personally.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> You would need billions of pixels and polygons and trillions of rays So give it 5 years, and you'll have it on your phone... If there's one thing I've learned over the decades about computer technology, it's to neve
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Most social networks would see rewarding early adopters as a benefit rather than a drawback. But in this particular case, they weren't the early adopters... The real "early adopter" was robbed of his name, for a (imho) i
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Could you substitute in octave for matlab? Or does it use something in matlab that is not available in octave?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
You probably know this, but it is possible to set things up so that zero taxes are taken out of your paycheck. Now, come April 15th, you will owe those taxes, but if you have an idea or know what that amount will be (in theory, you should b
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I have pretty much everything I care about from the past 20 years or so but a lot of it would be effectively gone had I not specifically saved it. While you have it - for "us" it is "effectively gone" - unless you u
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by cr0sh 8y ago
You are probably correct in this assessment; it's something I've thought about, as in "Why do so many developers hate the GPL, and prefer things like the MIT license and others?" I think - I'm not sure - that develo
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> What are some of the anti-software-union arguments? Part of it, I believe, revolves around salary/pay levels - there is a very large gap between the lowest and highest; this isn't completely based on geographical location, th
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Is it true that developers are rabidly anti-union? To me it seems this way; there are pros and cons to unionizing - while there hasn't been a formal discussion, obviously, developers have seemed to have selected for "no union
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I would love to see more CS history classes. It would be nice to see something like that. I'm not sure it will happen. Our human society in general - for some reason - has deemed that the history of "computation" - or ho
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> We need choice, but also connection. The "distributed web/internet" is probably going to be part of the answer, but that ultimately hits up against the ISP and data transport layer. Part of that can be (in theory) worked
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> You never truly own anything that has DRM, you're just licensing it. The thing that I hate is that the marketing either explicitly says "you own it", or does it implicitly or indirectly, or in a way to make you think tha
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by cr0sh 8y ago
But if you were applying for a position at another firm, what would they likely look at to determine competency? I'm not a lawyer - but my guess would be how many cases they've handled in the past, whether those were with another
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by cr0sh 8y ago
It does sound like a good way to interview a candidate. But I can see from the company's side it being a bit of a potential legal challenge issue. Depending on what the problem is and how deep it goes into the codebase or whatever, you

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